Andai language
Arafundi language of Papua New Guinea
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::summary Arafundi language of Papua New Guinea ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox language"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Andai |
| altname | Upper Arafundi |
| states | Papua New Guinea |
| region | East Sepik Province |
| speakers | 440 |
| date | 2017 |
| ref | e25 |
| familycolor | Papuan |
| fam1 | Madang – Upper Yuat |
| fam2 | Upper Yuat |
| fam3 | Arafundi |
| iso3 | afd |
| glotto | anda1283 |
| glottorefname | Andai |
| :: |
| name = Andai | altname = Upper Arafundi | nativename = | states = Papua New Guinea | region = East Sepik Province | speakers = 440 | date = 2017 | ref = e25 | familycolor = Papuan | fam1 = Madang – Upper Yuat | fam2 = Upper Yuat | fam3 = Arafundi | iso3 = afd | glotto = anda1283 | glottoname = | glotto2 = | glottoname2 = | glottorefname = Andai
Andai (Pundungum, Wangkai) is an Arafundi language of Papua New Guinea. Meakambut may be identical, but due to lack of data this cannot be determined with certainty.
Locations
Kassell, et al. (2018) list Namata, Kupina, Kaiyam, Andambit, and Awarem as the villages where Nanubae is spoken. In the Andai area, the Mongolo (or Meakambut, after one of their former villages) people, a group of about 50–60 people, live east of the Arafundi River; Kassell, et al. (2018) believe this may be a separate ethnolinguistic group.
According to Ethnologue, it is spoken in Andambit (), Awarem, Imboin (), Kaiyam (), Kupini (), and Namata mountain () villages in Imboin ward, Karawari Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.
References
References
- Kassell, Alison, Bonnie MacKenzie and Margaret Potter. 2018. ''[https://pnglanguages.sil.org/resources/archives/74262 Three Arafundi Languages: A Sociolinguistic Profile of Andai, Nanubae, and Tapei]''. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2017-003.
- United Nations in Papua New Guinea. (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
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